The collected works of deBug - Page 1

Spidy wrote: Actually, while we're on the subject, I've tried using Samba to try and get my O2 to communicate with the bj-200 ex i have connected on the pc.

Haven't been able to pull it off.

So, can anyone offer advice as to how to print from IRIX to a printer connected on a pc?

Is using Samba the way to go?

GIJoe wrote: so what is this? a collection of morphtargets that can be applied to some more or less human-shaped basemesh? from an animation-standpoint the topology is rather unimpressive i have to say, what kind of application is it targeted at?

zizban wrote: In case you haven't heard, Nekochan now has a wiki:
http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Main_Page

We're trying to collect all the knowledge, how-tos and hacks collected on the forums over the years in one place to make it easy for anyone to find. Feel free to dive in and add to it.

Right now only a handful of us are working on it in our spare time. We need your help!

Rutrem wrote: Hi

Iam new on this forum , and i plan to by an SGI Octane from eBay.
I am an pc/Windows user , but under the surface a great SGI fun;p

I have heard a lot of storys on SGI machines ... and iam really curious to hear some fresh firsthand experince from reall users.
An SGI Octan (first gen) could be compared with what kind (config) p.c. or Mac?

GIJoe wrote: that would give a 33% speed increase. not enough to beat that athlon MP.

frood wrote: I know there is no import duty when shipping within the EU, its the shipping costs that would break me there. I just added that in as a more general comment to those outside the EU on this board.

SAQ wrote:

deBug wrote: Tried it on my new fuel 600MHz with V12 and it was actually OK.
Around 15 fps according to the built in fps counter.

O.K- what's going on here? must be huge textures, since that is the only difference between V10 and V12.

Perhaps a "texture trimmed" edition would work better for SGIs?

SkyBound wrote: The easiest way to reduce the texture size is to rename Textures.high in the root of the base package. Only the low resolution versions of the texture will be used then.

Erik

Xidus wrote: Hey, I recently bought a SGI Indy for £5 off ebay, and it works great. Ive been playing around with it over serial because im to cheap to buy a SGI monitor, or even a converter to vga etc... Unfortunatly ive been unabled to get past the PROM because the guy who sold it to me forgot to inform me of the password, and i haven't been able to get my hands on any irix install media. My plan was to netboot the thing from my debian linux server so it could be diskless (With the fan mod to make it quieter) and use it as a mp3 player. Unfortunatly ive only been able to find one tutorial on doing this, and it was aimed at those using BSD. Ive tried to bodge togther a functioning netboot, but man, could they make it any harder to understand? I used http://packet.node.to/hacks/sgi_howto.html for the basics of how to get it working, but had a problem of the bat when bootpd and dhcpd remembered they do the same thing in linux and decided only one could run at a time. To counter this i tried to make a fully featured dhcpd.conf file..

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subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {}
host indy {
hardware ethernet 08:00:69:08:53:72;
fixed-address 10.0.0.31;
option host-name "indy";
option routers 10.0.0.2;
option domain-name-servers 158.152.1.43;
option root-path "/exports/indy";
filename "/tftpboot/unix";
}


and i made a copy of a friends indy irix install and put it into /exports/indy (Containing everything i need, lib, etc, dev and such) and executed

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exportfs -rv

With the /etc/exports of

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/export/indy  10.0.0.31(rw,async,no_root_squash)

I then copied the kernel to /tftpboot/unix and ran the tftp server. After this i booted the system and made the following env changes

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SystemPartition=bootp()192.168.0.1:/tftpboot
OSLoadPartition=bootp()192.168.0.1:/tftpboot
OSLoader=unix
OSLoadFileName=/unix

and then typed boot. This is what i got

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Setting $netaddr to 10.0.0.31 (from server )
Obtaining //unix from server
1307696+147504+149008 entry: 0x88003c40
IRIX Release 5.3 IP22 Version 02091401 System V
Copyright 1987-1994 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.


Get_bootparam failed.

Kernel mount failed, check server, bootparams
or press reset button !!!


Now from this Ive guessed that its loaded the kernel but doesn't know how to execute it, or where the other files it needs are (which i stuck in /exports/indy) but cant... Maybe something to do with the NFS not being properly loaded...?

Any help would be great.
Thanks

The Keeper wrote:

jan-jaap wrote: Later generations of SGI's might take fibre channel, but isn't it true that only the Prisa adapters for Onyx do tcp/ip over fibre channel (which was the whole aim in this case)?

Correct, but only as long as you don't use a Silkworm switch. For some reason, the Brocade switches don't like to work with the Prisa. Assuming you can find a Prisa for less than the price of a used car. They're rare as hen's teeth at this point.

Chris

The Keeper wrote: What you'd be looking for to complete the rest would either be called a "GLM", or Gigabit Loadable Module, or more likely at this point, Emulex LP6000 or LP7000 PCI cards with GLMs attached to them. Just yank the GLM off the LPx000 and drop it onto your cards. If you need more ports, that is.
Chris

The Keeper wrote: Interestingly, I just found a bag with a few GLMs in it. If you can't find any LP6000 or LP7000 cards in Europe, let me know. I'd be willing to sell you the lot for $20 including shipping.

Chris

jan-jaap wrote:

The Keeper wrote:

deBug wrote: Only one of the boards has the optical adapter.

What you'd be looking for to complete the rest would either be called a "GLM", or Gigabit Loadable Module, or more likely at this point, Emulex LP6000 or LP7000 PCI cards with GLMs attached to them. Just yank the GLM off the LPx000 and drop it onto your cards. If you need more ports, that is.

What about bulkheads, do you have those? Or do you want to run fiber through a hole in the front panel of the Onyx straight to the card?

For me, that was a reason not to bid on that auction . . .

schleusel wrote: This news bit (german) talks about planned upgrades of the new northern german "HLRN-II" Altix installation - which currently consists solely of Altix ICE x86 clusters.

The interesting part is the second passage. It talks about two additional planned "Ultra Violet" SMP systems each consisting of 2176 CPUs (136 blades with two 8-core Nehalem-Xeons each) and 8.7 TB of memory in only five large nodes - using NUMALink 5

Wonder if this will mark the end of their IA64 lineup (wouldn't be all that surprising i suppose ) or if they'll offer both variants..